AudioVision @ Mersey Air Vent, Mann Island Liverpool 20th September 2008

Hannah Peel from Kinetic Fallacy has invited the Project down to the following event where we will be distributing flyer:

20th September 2008
Mersey Air Vent, Mann Island
7pm festival gates open to public, 8pm performances start.
FREE ENTRY!
Get down to Air vent early as limited places.

Live outdoor Music and Visual performances from Addictive TV (#1 VJ's in the world - DJ Magazine Poll) Flat-e (WARP film favourites) collaborating with Ultre and local AV collective Kinetic Fallacy...all performing live in front of the huge projection and light show on the Mersey Tunnel Air Vent.

AudioVision In Liverpool 15-20 September 2008

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Liverpool's first Audio Visual festival!

15th - 20th September 2008

Visual installations, Live VJ'd Music performances, Artist screenings, visual workshops and an outdoor bike-in theatre.

Monday 15th - 19th September 2008
Mersey Air Vent, Mann Island
8pm - 12am
FREE ENTRY!

Specially commissioned projected installation onto the façade of the Mersey Tunnel 1930's Air Vent (Mann Island), from NOMO (NYC/Sweden) and Jacqueline Passmore (live visual artist for Ladytron & Stereolab) Bringing the insides of the building to the out!

Click here to see the artists blog of the installation process
http://urbanshifts.wordpress.com/

20th September 2008
Mersey Air Vent, Mann Island
7pm festival gates open to public, 8pm performances start.
FREE ENTRY!
Get down to Air vent early as limited places.

Live outdoor Music and Visual performances from Addictive TV (#1 VJ's in the world - DJ Magazine Poll) Flat-e (WARP film favourites) collaborating with Ultre and local AV collective Kinetic Fallacy...all performing live in front of the huge projection and light show on the Mersey Tunnel Air Vent.

Wed 17th September 2008
The Bluecoat
8pm
£12 / £10
Buy tickets here!

The Smith Quartet, (Strings with electronics) performing Steve Reich's 'Different trains' and new composers with specially commissioned cinematic visuals from local visual artists. A one-off performance, The Bluecoat, Liverpool. Supported by BMIC and The Bluecoat.

Artists:

Jon Baraclough Alex Wolkowicz Seel Garside Ian Mitchell (CU32) Joe Stathers-Tracey Markus Soukup Richard Ramchurn

Special AV nights at FACT and artists introductions - more updates to come!

Hive Twilight City 3: The Spectacular Suburb 13/9/08

Just found out that the above is sold out!!!

Hive Twilight City is a series of four high profile audiovisual performances over the course of 2008 paying tribute to a potentially overlooked part of Liverpool's essence: its industrial and business buildings, its bricks, Liverpool the space - the iconic and mundane, the city centre and the suburb. Each event will work as a celebration of existing city structures as the city itself moves onwards, a snapshot prior to the city’s ongoing mutation into a premier 21st Century City. In each event familiar sounds are reworked, familiar sights distorted in a feast of the best in new electronic music and state of the art projected visuals.

Saturday 13 September 2008

Matthew Herbert
Chris Watson
Hive DJs + VJs

the Bluecoat
School Lane
Liverpool L1 3BX
8pm - 10:30pm
£5/£7

Tel: +44 151 702 5324

SOLD OUT (totally)
The Hive Collective has commissioned two of the world’s most accomplished sonic pioneers, Matthew Herbert and Chris Watson, to collaborate on a unique composition constructed entirely out of recordings from Crosby Beach – the site of Antony Gormley’s Another Place installation.

A one-off event at a specially prepared performance space within the Bluecoat will see Watson explore Another Place through a series of source recordings, followed by Herbert’s presentation of a brand new musical composition based on those recordings.

By considering what these impassive iron men ‘hear’ as they gaze on the changing seascape and a changing Liverpool, the audience will, in turn, be encouraged to reimagine both the installation and the surrounding area, as well as reflect on how definitions of place vary, yet hold a truth, as they pass from person to person.

Challenging yet accessible, the event aims both to introduce new audiences to music composed from field recordings, as well as explore questions relating to what can constitute ‘music’ in a city dominated by more traditional definitions of authenticity.

About the Artists

Matthew Herbert
Restless innovator, sampling wizard, classically trained pianist and superstar collaborator, Matthew Herbert is one of electronic music's most versatile and prolific figureheads. Herbert has produced and remixed artists as diverse as Björk, REM, John Cale, Roisin Murphy, Yoko Ono and Serge Gainsbourg. An alchemist of avant-garde sound in the tradition stretching from Stockhausen to the Aphex Twin, Herbert combines playful pop sensibility with a strictly imposed experimental agenda.

Chris Watson
Chris Watson is a world renowned sound recordist and one of the pioneers of UK electronic music. Chris has travelled the world exploring the wildlife sounds of animals, habitats and atmospheres for some of the BBC’s most popular natural history programmes, such as Life in the Undergrowth, Talking with Animals, Big Cat Diary and The Life of Birds for which he won a BAFTA . Beginning his career as a musician in the Sheffield band Cabaret Voltaire, he has released three solo CDs through Touch.

Pool Of Light 31/10/08 - 30/11/08

Liverpool is one of Europe's leading lights. The city's reputation for imaginative lighting of its landmark buildings has gained international recognition. The Pool of Light project, which takes place throughout Liverpool from October 31st - November 30th 2008, brings some of the best international lighting designers to the European Capital of Culture for a unique lighting project.

Local people, young professionals and seven lighting designers will deliver a temporary lighting spectacle in eight locations in Autumn 2008, linking both sides of the world famous River Mersey. To find out how to get involved in the workshops or conference, check out the information on this website.

The Pool of Light project is supported by Liverpool City Council, Liverpool Vision, Mersey Waterfront Regional Park, Merseytravel, Northwest Regional Development Agency, Professional Lighting Design Association and Wirral Council.

For more details of events:

Pool Of Light

AudioVision

The AudioVision festival site has been launched!

Visit AudioVision to see the full line-up, dates and times for all the events.

There is also a link to view the beginnings of the artists blog - who are creating the urban video installation to be projected onto the Mersey Air Vent. This will be updated weekly as their work and ideas are developed.

Liverpool's first Audio Visual festival!

15th - 20th September 2008

Visual installations, Live VJ'd Music performances, Artist screenings, visual workshops and an outdoor bike-in theatre.

Monday 15th - 19th September 2008
Mersey Air Vent, Mann Island
8pm - 12am
FREE ENTRY!

Specially commissioned projected installation onto the façade of the Mersey Tunnel 1930's Air Vent (Mann Island), from NOMO (NYC/Sweden) and Jacqueline Passmore (live visual artist for Ladytron & Stereolab) Bringing the insides of the building to the out!

The Hope Street Project is hoping to actively support this festival - more details in near future.

Hope Street Feast 21/9/08

We will be participating in this year's Hope Street Feast and will post up details at a later date.

Here is the publicity blurb from the Hope Street Feast who organise the event:

Hope Street Feast is the ultimate family-friendly chill-out Sunday street party in Liverpool's iconic Hope Street Quarter. Celebrate the launch of the cultural season and academic year, the CAMRA Real Ale Pubs Festival, and the finale of the Liverpool Food and Drink Festival, with music, theatre, dance, great food, drink and produce, and much more. See Vasily Petrenko conduct the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir at the Phil’s Open Day; enjoy the Open Air Ceili organised by Liverpool Irish Festival, or take part in dance workshops at Merseyside Dance Initiative leading to a performance. Kids will love the Unity Theatre’s “Emperor Bling’s To Do Market”, and there’s plenty more open events including Blackburne House’s 25th Birthday Party, The Dojo, and events at the Everyman Theatre.

Music includes reggae from T & Latouche, and sets from Ian Prowse, Jennifer John, Liz Green, Xander and the Peace Pirates, and Cortina Deluxx.

Eat at, or outside, the many fine restaurants on Hope Street: this year there will be several al fresco dining areas at which you can feast, including alcohol free family dining areas at the top of Mount Street and Hardman Street, whilst some of the quarter’s finest bars and eateries will have open air extensions for the day. Above all, enjoy a Green & Black’s organic ice cream outside The Phil!

At the heart of it all there’s the market, running along Hope Street from LIPA to the Everyman. With double the number of stalls this year, there’s more hot and gourmet foods, fine regional farm produce and local crafts than ever before. And setting the theme for the day this year we welcome The Market Of Optimism, organised by Hope Street Ltd and commissioned by Liverpool Culture Company. As you enter Hope Street you will be handed 100 “Neuros” to spend at 20 ridiculous market stalls on inspirational products that are the answer to a wish and the embodiment of hope. Accompanied by street musicians, roof top hawkers, flapping carpets, singers and vendors of every description, this sprinkling of positive madness will provide perfect seasoning to the Feast.

Events begin with the morning services in the Cathedrals, the market, and with children’s films in the Phil from 10am and run throughout the day until 5.30pm. The Market of Optimism runs from 1pm to 4pm.

More details of the Fest programme:

http://www.hopestreetfeast.com/

Sound And Light To Unite Cathedrals

The project features in this morning's Liverpool Daily Post. Vicky Anderson the Daily Post's acting Arts Editor recently interviewed Peter Appleton and Colin Dilnot from the project and this is what she has written in today's paper:

THE hopes and aspirations of the people of Liverpool will travel the length of one of its most inspirational streets as part of a striking new art project.

The Hope Street Project is an innovative art installation which will link Liverpool’s two cathedrals with light and sound throughout the autumn.

“Voices travel as light” is the idea behind the piece, as it will use two lasers – one that will be visible during hours of darkness, and a second invisible beam carrying voices and sounds between the two cathedrals.

The visible laser will be turned on from September 25.

Following on from that, recorded sounds travelling along the other beam will vibrate the strings of a guitar, creating a chordal and harmonic backdrop to the delicate tapestry of voices which will be heard in both cathedrals at designated times.

This is where the need for outside help comes in, as the team behind the project are appealing for volunteers to contribute the phrases – a word, a sentence or short poem that describes what you hope for in life – that will be added to the mass that will resonate in both cathedrals, travelling along the sonic beam between them.

The overall sound created will offer a gentle and discreet ambience for reflection and contemplation.

Visitors to the cathedrals will be able to hear the sounds created by the installation in both Cathedrals at designated times.

Organisers have already held special events to get people involved and anyone interested can add their voices to the project, by emailing a message to hopestreetproject@gmail.com, or you can drop into either cathedral at designated times to record it (details can be found at the websites below).

Project manager Colin Dilnot said: “It’s about aspirations and the aspirations of the people of Liverpool. That’s why we wanted to do it in 2008, at such a time of optimism.”

All the software has been made specifically, and the Hope Street Project will go live the week beginning October 25 and culminate with a concert with choirs at each cathedral.

“The Anglican takes on a unique quality to the space, because of the fantastic acoustics there. If you go to the Metropolitan its sounds different again".

“The project is interesting as it is about how the sounds we are creating interplay in very different buildings. People are going to be intrigued by it.”

For more information visit:

http://www.hopestreetproject.blogspot.com/ or
http://www.myspace.com/hopestreetproject

Vicky Anderson

Big thanks to Vicky Anderson and the Liverpool Daily Post for publicising our project.